This podcast includes some harsh language and blunt spoiling. But… you’ve already seen Reek horribly tortured and are dead inside anyway.

This week, we don’t go to King’s Landing or Dorne, instead we spend time East and North. What characters get added to the Boneyard this week after a Stony encounter in Valyria swaps in Jorah for a Griff? At the wall, Joanna and Neil try to make Da7e feel better about what Ollie is obviously being used for and we quickly touch on if we’re gonna make it to Oldtown later on down the line. Stannis and his group are leaving the wall and everything that happens at Winterfell is foreign to us, so that begins the big kick-off of this week’s crackpot theories. Where will Stannis meet the Boltons? Who dies where? When should we resume Stoneheart watch?

Love love love the podcast because of the freedom of hosts to spoil spoil spoil without restrictions or fear of people complaining abut spoilers. Please continue to do so and hopefully that one complaint of SPOILER! doesn’t stop them from saying something with freedom and wihout fear or worry. Some people just can’t let spoilers be spoilers. Keep spoiling! No apologies

Love the podcast, great episode, as usual:)
I have to say, though, the way that this show plays with my nerves regarding the whole Lady Stoneheart situation is getting too much. I know that at this point I should not hope anymore, but a part of me still does. Especially, in this episode, when they mentioned Catelyn’s name SO often I got really upset. D&D, just give us some clarity, so we may mourn in peace. If she is cut, just say it. OR it’s the best kept secret in TV history (no it’s not, but still….)

Am I seriously the only one who thought it was obvious that “Sansa confronts an old friend” was referring to Sansa actually *talking to* (i.e. confronting) Theon as opposed to staring in shock and ignoring angrily? They just say “an old friend” instead of Theon to avoid spoilers…

Yeah. Me too. There isn’t anyone else that would make sense. Or maybe it really is the Hound somehow. Fingers crossed ( but definitely unlikely that it could be Direwolf Nymeria come to save her! Haha that would be awesome

Addition to the boneyard. Vargo Hoat – the guy who actually cut off Jamie’s hand. The Brave Companions, Vargo Hoat was the leader of this mercenary troop. (Vargo Hoat had a horrific, even comical, lisp.)

I don’t have a comment so much as a thought. I’ve been listening to past episodes at work lately – I have an extremely dull factory job, and listening to you is a spectacular way to pass time. But I don’t remember what episode it was, exactly. You were talking about when Jon gets stabbed, and what you think will happen to him next.

What if they put his body on the other side of the wall, as someone suggested … but Bran finds him. Bran could be the one that tells him who his mother really is, assuming that R+L=J. Bran warged into that weirwood before, and saw Lyanna and Benjen playing. Maybe he’d warg into another and see his father talking to the old gods about the lie he’s telling his own wife. I mean, I can’t see Ned being someone who took it lightly, even if it was a promise to his dying sister. He knew it was necessary, because his best friend would have killed Jon if he knew. But it can’t have been easy to tell a lie like that to his own wife.

Of course I’m filling in this theory with all sorts of detail, and should probably lay off that part. But it would be a way to bring their two plot lines together, and touch base with everything Bran would be learning studying with Brynden Rivers / Bloodraven / the three eyed crow.

Sorry this is long, and I’m sorry if I missed some place I could email these thoughts to, but I thought I’d throw my idea out there. I love the podcast! I’ve pretty well given up on the show due to a few personal issues with the direction they are taking it (namely Tommen and Jaime’s changes). But I do enjoy following how it differs from the book, and this podcast is the perfect way to keep up with it in a way that’s still entertaining.

Great Podcast guys. I would like all 3 of you to spend atleast half the time on the Isle of Crazy.

First regarding the discussion on Dany marrying Hizdahr : In the books it is the Galazza Galare AKA Green Grace that suggests the marriage to dany so that she may atleast stop the insurgency within the city and negotiate with Yunkai. So the equation is more Dany needing Hizdahr than vice versa at that point. The power dynamic is completely changed in the show as Dany basically makes Hizadahr her bitch. Btw i am ready to stake my nerd cred on betting that Green Grace is the Harpy.

Secondly i am tired of the showrunners giving space to make believe characters like Olly instead of staying true to the source material. He might or might not stab John but he was a character ripe for Gates of the Boneyard. Instead we could focus more on the betrayal of Edd and Ser Alliser/Bowen Marsh angle.

Lastly in the winterfell storyline they gotta show some more northern lords, Some Umbers or Glovers atleast or even introduce Howland Reed slyly to show the undercurrent of Bolton hatred through out the north. The Glover storyline would have been perfect as it would have shown northern anger , got Asha/Yara greyjoy in chains.

All in all i still keep my trust in the show until they show the impossible and the most horrific act in Westeros i.e Stannis dying at the hands of Brienne. The very thought makes me suicidal, the last time i had such thoughts was when Molly Weasley murdered my beloved Bellatrix.Its like killing of a Terminator by a Tea Cup Pig ….Damn you Rowling